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Finn E. Kydland is a Norwegian economist who has made significant contributions to economic theory and policy. (I cannot provide more specific details about why he matters based solely on the information that he is a Norwegian economist.)
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-12-01 ) 1 December 1943 (age 82) , Ålgård , Gjestal Municipality , Norway
- Alma mater
- Norwegian School of Economics (BSc), Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
- Thesis
- Decentralized Macroeconomic Planning (1975)
- Doctoral advisor
- Edward C. Prescott , David Cass
- Influences
- Robert S. Kaplan
- Discipline
- Macroeconomics
- School or tradition
- New classical economics
- Notable ideas
- Real Business Cycle Theory , Time consistency in economic policy
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics , 2004
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2004
“for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Finn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Ålgård
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- David Cass
- Field of work
- new classical macroeconomics
- Image
- Kydland.jpg
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- Finn E. Kydland
- date of birth
- 1943-12-01
- member of
- Econometric Society
- name in native language
- Finn Erling Kydland
- influenced by
- Edward C. Prescott
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professorship at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD, and a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, with Edward C. Prescott, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."
Biography
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